Ernest Lane (surgeon)

James Ernest Lane, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, was a British surgeon who lived from 24 July 1857 to 4 November 1926. He was head surgeon at St Mary's Hospital in London from 1904 to 1922, holding that senior post for eighteen years. His father was James R. Lane, and he was the grandnephew of Samuel Armstrong Lane. His career is recorded in an obituary printed in the British Medical Journal in 1926, in the Who Was Who reference work, and in a biographical entry held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The sources available for him are brief, so this entry records his post, his dates and his family and does not describe his operative work.